Eksempler på abject

• In this, the abject is unlike the object, which stabilizes the subject in a reciprocal relationship of otherness.

• Fabulous wealth and abject gloom, though apparently contradictory, were the two effects.

• By lunchtime on the following day, everything - including its abject side, the expulsion of the worthless, consumed commodity - has disappeared from view.

• Their financial situation suggests that they had started to move out of abject poverty.

• In this sense even abject failure can be turned to economic, political, and of course academic benefit.

• With the abject failure of its longstanding policy of exemplary libel prosecutions, the government simply gave up trying to control language.

• The subject is identified both with what it repudiates and what is repudiated: not subject but abject.

• The abject "expression" alerts readers to other categories of persons who regarded themselves as enslaved.